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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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Made in Atlanta==A Permanent
Exhibition of Our Goods Would be a
Liberal Education to the Whole Coun=
try=-The Time to Act Is NOW.
The plan of the manufacturers and merchants of Atlanta
to install a permanent exhibition of MADE IN ATLANTA goods
in this city is excellent.
Chattanooga has an exhibition along similar lines, and it is
proposed by the Chamber of Commerce of this city that the
manufacturers and merchants of Atlanta shall study this exhibit
in Chattanooga, and install an exhibition of MADE IN AT
LANTA goods here, so that people of the entire south, and other
parts of the country as well, may know exactly what MADE IN
ATLANTA goods really mean.
The Georgian suggests that the business men of Atlanta
take up this question at once, with the idea of devoting a week
during this summer or early fall to a SHOW THEM exhibition
of the 1,000 or more articles that are now manufactured in At
lanta by the 600 manufacturers now engaged in such work.
An exhibition of this kind would attract the attention of
business men and merchants from all over the south. The rail
roads would undoubtedly offer low rates to travelers; hotel ac
commodations are ample, and with the superb summer weather
that Atlanta always enjoys, an exhibition week here would be
beneficial to all concerned.
A permanent exhibition of MADE IN ATLANTA goods
would be a liberal education. Atlanta needs that kind of an ex
hibition. MADE IN ATLANTA should mean the highest stand
ard of merit. Articles made in Atlanta will undoubtedly find
a ready sale all over the country, as soon as it is known what
Atlanta really can do.
Every business man in Atlanta, no matter in what enter
prise he is engaged, should help this movement along. It will
mean much to the city. It will make for progress in. every di
rection.
The Georgian congratulates the board of directors of the
Chamber of Commerce and the manufacturers and merchants of
this city in taking up this permanent exhibition idea, and hopes
it will be pushed forward in an active way.
What Is To Be Done for These
Women andOthersLikeThem?
Who Will Answer the Questions That These Human Ques
tion Marks Permanently Represent in Our Civilization?
Isn’t It Time TO MAKE A BEGINNING?
Copyright, 1013
Hold this paper at arm's length and the three women at
the top of the page look like three question marks.
AND THEY ARE THREE QUESTION MARKS
They are the oldest question marks in the world, or at least
In the world as long as men have lived on it, some two or three
hundred thousand years.
From the beginning w*jnen have done the hard work, the
. dull work, the work that wears the brain, the body and the
nerves, AND THE HORRIBLE WORK THAT HOLDS OUT
NO FUTURE HOPE.
These question marks stand out on our so-called “civiliza
tion'’ of to-day.
You have the girl in her childhood bending over the ma
chine. What are you going to do for her? How are you going
to set her free?
You have the young woman bending over her child, in pov
erty, misery and anxiety. What are you going to do for her?
How are you going to make your boasted civilization and pros
perity free her from a life of sorrow, worry and want?
You have the older woman bending over the washtub, using
up the last fragment of vitality and energy, painfully and slow
ly doing work which could be done quickly and easily by a ma
chine—if it were "worth while” for men to use their intelli
gence and their machinery to free women from slavery.
How are you going to free these three slaves, straighten up
their backs and answer the questions which they represent?
We have more than half a thousand solemn statesmen in
Washington. And we have thousands in the Capitols of the
States.
They are discussing laws and “economic questions," talk
ing, advising, sometimes honestly urging, more often dishon
estly selling their opinions.
When will they find time among other questions to take up
the three questions at the top of this page?
Is it not almost time to make a BEGINNING?
And wouldn't the best beginning be the fixing OF A MINI
MUM WAGE FOR WORKING GIRLS AND WOMEN ?
That would be at least a start. It would stop or check the
present profitable money making schemes of hiring and working
girls and women for less than it costs to feed them properly.
It is true that you could not in this way free from misery
the wives of underpaid workingmen, or the mothers, old and
half worn out.
But you could at least BEGIN with the wages of women,
making it a crime to force a woman by poverty and want to
work for such wages as mean a life half starved.
Who cares now for these miserable women?
What voice have they? They can't send a man to Congress,
or take him from Congress.
They can t put a judge on the bench or take him off the
bench.
How long must women wait for their rights? How long
shall this picture continue? How long shall these human question
jciarks bend over their tasks, neglected and forgotten?
The Atlanta Georgian
Living Questions
Here are three human question ^matks. When will the “statesmen” of the nation find time to answer, or try to answer, the questions th at these three bodies ask?
- • (See Editorial.)
V f
What Is Ideal Love in a Man?
“The God-Blessed Macs”
The Highest Type of Lover Is at Once Friend, Mate, Defender
and Comrade to the Woman He Loves.
Dr. White Says in the Storm the Presbyterians Are Oak and
Rock, but in the Sunshine They Are Vine and Flower.
W HAT is the highest ideal
of man’s love for wom
an?
It is a more difficult question
to answer than its companion—
woman’s ideal love for man—be
cause woman is a more difficult
being to satisfy In the matter of
the affections than man.
(liven an orderly home, a well-
supplied table and a tactful,
cheerful womnr to reign, and
the average man Is content with
bis domestic relations. But emo
tional woman wants more than
these conditions grant. She wants
continuous praise, a frequently
recurring touch of sentiment, ami
even a misundemanding, now
and then, followed by a reconcil
iation, is sweeter to her than a
monotony of unexpressed satis
faction.
The Ideal Lover.
The ideal lover takes into con
sideration all these peculiarities
of feminine temperament, and
adapts himself to them in a rea
sonable degree.
Almost every woman, the most
ardent and romantic ns well as
the phlegmatic, realizes at times
the maternal element in her love
for a man. It is this which aids
her in being his patient nurse in
hours of illness and his stimulus
in times of despondency and it is
that lack of graver and more
paternal clement In man's love
which ’ detracts from its ideality
so often.
When he does possess it man is
liable to overdo the matter and
to become the slave of his lady’s
hysterical moods and to encour
age her weaknesses and her self
ish whims.
The lover who is at once kind,
sympathetic and masterful Is sel
dom found, yet he alone illus
trates the highest order of love.
The Ideal lover is he who com
mands his wife's or sweetheart's
respect and admiration, together
with her love; who makes her
realize that his standards of
womanhood and of life are high,
and that he expects her to do her
part toward maintaining them,
and who is capable of drawing a
tine line between devotion and
servility.
The ideal lover of either sex is
not a slave or a coward.
The moment those elements
enter into a love its standard is
lowered.
1 once heard a wife say that site
would not live with a man who
told her he thought another wom
an beautiful. She felt that his
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Written for The Georgian by REV. JOHN E. WHITE, pastor Second Baptist Church.
love for her should blind his eyes
to the beauty of all others.
The man loved his wife, but
while his lips were silent on the
subject of others’ charms, his fur
tive glances of admiration often
bespoke the sentiments of his
mind. That man’s love Was not
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
ideal, since it lacked the courage
to make his w ife understand how
she belittled herself in his eyes.
The ideal lover does not enter
tain his wife by expatiating on
the charms of other women for
hours, but he does express his
respectful admiration on occa
sions.
It Lacked Courage.
He strives to bring out the very
best and noblest qualities in the
■woman whom he has chosen for
his life mate and to aid her de
veloping into a perfect woman
hood. He is her friend and her
protector as well as her lover and
admirer. He looks out for her
best interests, but he never for
gets that she has an individuality
of her own which is to be re
spected and considered. She is his
mate and his companion, not his
chattel or his servant.
She is to be advised and guided,
but not commanded or coerced.
The highest type of lover real-
i/rs that a woman has a spirit and
a soul, as well as a body.
The man w ho hides a woman
awa> and tries to keep her from
all association with her kind and
all pleasures not directly be
stowed by him 1st not an ideal
!"wr. however radix he adores
her.
His love savors too much of
that of th> bear who carries the
lamb to its cave to devour it at
leisure.
Neither is that the highest type
of love which encourages a wom
an’s foolish ambitions and un
worthy aims.
I have known a man to plume
himself as a model husband be
cause he gave his assistance to a
silly wife—the mother of his chil
dren—who Conceived an aspira
tion for a theatrical career. She
possessed no atom of talent, and
made herself only the object of
ridicule and pity to all observers,
while she left her husband—a
good man, of ample means—and
her children to the care of domes
tics.
Had the woman been a great
genius, born to do some special
work in life and no other, the hus
band’s unselfishness would have
been “ideal.”
Highest Type of Lover.
A man must be a woman s
truest friend in order to be also
her ideal lover. He must possess
appreciation of all her best quali
ties. sympathy for all her femi
nine weaknesses, the courage to
v rn her when her highest good
demands it. and the wisdom to
direct her when counsel is need
ed. He must be delicate enough
never to make her feel her finan
cial dependence upon him. and he
must possess the will power and
self-control to make his loyalty to
her under all conditions that
which he expects of her.
Yes. he must be strong enough
to keep her from leading him into
financial ruin, and lover enough
to keep her responsive lo his
demonstrations of affection.
Friend, defender, lover, comrade,
mate—all these must be he who
possesses “the highest type of
love’’ for woman.
Pertinent Paragraphs
It is rather startling to read
the initials R. I. N. G. after the
name of an officer, but on reading
along one may find that he be
longs to the Rhode Island Nation
al Guard.
* * *
History records that once upon
a time a man had the last word.
The man was Noah Webster. The
word was “zyxomma.”
* * *
Wouldn’t it be a good thing to
take the “rogue” out of “progres
sive?”
* * *
Love will often modify the mis
ery occasioned by her piano play
ing. _
T WO good-natured witticisms
at the expense of the Pres
byterians by the late Sam
Jones have just passed into ob
livion beyond recall. He said that
the only objection to be had
against the Presbyterians was
that there are so few of them, and
that “The Presbyterians pay more
for their religion and get less
fun out of it than any people on
earth.”
The historic gathering of 1,500
commissioners in Atlanta, repre
senting American Presbyterians,
has abruptly made an end of the
first complaint, and their lively
proceedings in debate and the
good cheer they have radiated on
our streets and in our homes
leaves no ground for the other.
The Presbyterians number
nearly 5,000,000 in the world and
constitute one-fifth of the evan
gelical force of Christianity. They
have furnished their full share to
the entertainment of history.
Definite Distinctions.
The English and Welsh names
of Smith and Jones represent our
largest American classification of
surnames, but the folks whose
names carry the handle of the
“God-blessed Macs” belong to a
class of quality incomparable in
weight and achievement.
Next to the Jews the Macs
have preserved through genera
tions a distinctive character. They
are not all Presbyterians, but
there is a Presbyterian quality in
them all.
Presbyterianism is only a de
nominational subdivision—a frag
ment broken off from Scotch
granite: but the Presbyterian es
sence has gone with Scotchmen
into every nook and corner of
American character. Its leaven
is pungent and penetrating, and
if they could only monopolize it
and secure a royal patent on all it
permeates. the Presbyterians
would lay claim to the most im
mense religious areas. But there
is no monopoly in truth, and the
Presbyterians are debtors also.
Renan said “Jesus begat Paul.
Paul begat Augustine. Augustine
begat John Calvin. John Calvin
begat John Knox."
It is with difficulty that
Protestants are reminded that
Augustine was Roman Catholic.
Aside from theological heredity,
the Presbyterians, taken as they
are. constitute in the*world an in
calculable value to human char
acter far beyond their numerical
strength.
It is not generally known that
the name Scotland was stolen
the little country now
known as Ireland. Scotia, before
*the tenth century, was a territo
rial term, while Scotus was a race
name and the generic term of
Scot! embraced the people of that
race, whether inhabiting Ireland
or Britain.
After the tenth century the
REV. JOHN E. WHITE.
principal stronghold Of the people
designated Scoti included nine
counties in the North of Ireland
as well as the Western part of
Scotland.
The Scotch-Irish, therefore, are
not a mixture of Irish and Scotch
blood, but are the pure Scotch who
happened to be geographically
identified with Northern Ireland.
The main contribution to Ameri
can life from the Scotch came
from this region. They brought
their quality with them, and it
was a fighting quality.
The first Scotch-Irish clergy
man to land in America, in 1682.
landed in jail immediately,
charged with the offense of
preaching the Gospel at a private
house.
The first great Scotch-Irish
lawyer spoke a piece in Virginia
about “Give me liberty or give ms
death.” At Mecklenburg. North
Carolina, the Scotch-Irish raised
the first standard of defiance to
Great Britain.
At Alamance, in North Caro
lina, ten years before, they had
fought the first skirmish of the
American Revolution.
When George Washington saw
red-coats landing at every sea
port he said that If the -woavt
came to the worst h« would
gather the Scotch-Irishman
around him and make a fortress
of liberty in the Blue Rldg*
Mountains.
At King’s Mountain the Scotch-
Irish, under three Pnegbyterlan
elders, flung victory into the teeth
of despair and saved the cause of
Independence.
The Presbyterians may not
claim them all, but we a!I claim
them.
Good Soldiers—Good Brothqps.
We have had a large flavor of •
this life for ten days In Atlanta,
All our under-estimates are re- y *3
vised. * 4
We have seen the Presbyteri
ans as many and we know them
as much. We have marked them
as good soldiers, and we have felt
them as good brothers. We have
witnessed them in their conflicts,
and we have warmed toward
them in our homes.
If In the storm they are oal4
and rock, in the sunshine they
are vine and flower.
By LILLIAN LAUFFERTY.
LL the selfish joj^s of earth,
I am getting through—
That which used to lure and
lead
Now I pass and give no heed:
Only one thing seems of worth—
Just you.
Not for me the lonely height,
And the larger view;
Lowlier ways seem fair and
wide,
W hile we wander side by side.
One thing makes the whole
world bright—
Just you.
Not for distant goals I run,
No great aim pursue;
Most of earth's ambitions seem
Like a shadow of a dream \
All the world to me means
one—
Just you.